Helping Children with Fear - Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World

Author: Nicky Hancock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780863884689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
This practical guidebook, with a beautifully-illustrated storybook, enables teachers, parents and professionals to help children aged 4-12 connect with unresolved feelings affecting their behaviour. This is a guidebook to help children who: worry a lot or exhibit signs of ongoing anxiety experience the world as an unsafe place suffer from phobias, obsessions or nightmares are scared to tell someone that they are scared know a terrible loneliness feel insignificant in a world of adult giants feel defeated by life or need help in being assertive feel so impotent that their only way to feel any potency is to be mute. Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World tells a story for fearful children. One day Teenie Weenie finds himself in a screechy, scary place. The worse it gets, the smaller Teenie Weenie feels. Teenie Weenie feels terrified and desperately alone. But after a while, with a Wip Wop bird and his friend Hoggie, Teenie Weenie learns about the power of together. He comes to know how very different things look when it's an us not just a me. And so, whenever Teenie Weenie finds himself struggling alone with something too difficult or too frightening, he finds some together.

Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351699504
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
One day Teenie Weenie finds himself in a scrumbly screechy place. It is full of noises and crashes and things that swoop and scratch. The worse it gets, the smaller Teenie Weenie feels. After a while, he feels so small that the tiniest insect tries to eat him up. Teenie Weenie feels terrified and desperately alone.

Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351699490
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
(A story for fearful children) One day Teenie Weenie finds himself in a scrumbly screechy place. It is full of noises and crashes and things that swoop and scratch. The worse it gets, the smaller Teenie Weenie feels. After a while, he feels so small that the tiniest insect tries to eat him up. Teenie Weenie feels terrified and desperately alone. But after a while along strolls a Wip-Wop bird who invites Teenie Weenie to come and have a chocolate muffin in his tree house. With the Wip Wop bird and his friend Hoggie, Teenie Weenie learns for the first time in his life all about the power of TOGETHER. He comes to know how very different things look when it's an US not just a ME. And so after that, whenever Teenie Weenie finds himself struggling alone with something too difficult or too frightening, he goes off and finds some TOGETHER.

Helping Children with Fear

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135169331X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
A guidebook to help children who: worry a lot or exhibit signs of ongoing anxiety; experience the world as an unsafe place; suffer from phobias, obsessions or nightmares; are scared to tell someone that they are scared; know a terrible loneliness; feel insignificant in a world of adult giants; feel defeated by life or need help in being assertive; and feel so impotent that their only way to feel any potency is to be mute.

A Wibble Called Bipley

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351693352
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A story for children who have hardened their hearts or become bullies. Bipley is a warm cuddly creature, but someone has broken his heart. He feels so hurt that he decides it is just too painful to ever love again. When he meets some big tough Honks in the wood, they teach him how to harden his heart so that he doesn't have to feel hurt any more. Luckily Bipley meets some creatures who teach him how he can protect himself without hardening his heart.

Helping Children with Loss

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000538842
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Now in a fully updated second edition, this professional guidebook has been created to help adults provide emotional support for children who have experienced the loss of somebody they know, or something they loved. Written in an accessible style and with a sensitive tone, Helping Children with Loss provides adults with a rich vocabulary for mental states and painful emotions, paving the way for meaningful and healing conversations with children who are struggling with difficult feelings. Practical activities provide opportunities for conversation and will empower the child to find creative and imaginative ways of expressing themselves when words fail. Key features of this resource include: Targeted advice for children who defend against feeling their painful feelings by dissociating from grief Tools and strategies for helping children cope with loss, including engaging activities to help children explore their feelings in a non-threatening way Photocopiable and downloadable resources to help facilitate support Written by a leading child psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience, this book will support children to develop emotional literacy and connect with unresolved feelings affecting their behaviour. It is an essential resource for anybody supporting children aged 4-12 who have experienced loss.

Willy and the Wobbly House

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351372289
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
This is a story for children who are anxious or obsessional. Willy is an anxious boy who experiences the world as a very unsafe, wobbly place where anything awful might happen at any time. Joe, the boy next door, is too ordered and tidy to be able to ever really enjoy life. Follow their adventures with the Puddle People who help them break out of their fixed patterns and find far richer ways of living in the world.

Helping Children with Low Self-Esteem & Ruby and the Rubbish Bin

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000474453
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
This practical guidebook, with a beautifully-illustrated storybook, enables teachers, parents and professionals to help children aged 4-12 connect with unresolved feelings affecting their behaviour. Helping Children with Low Self-Esteem is a guidebook to help children who: don't like themselves or feel there is something fundamentally wrong with them have been deeply shamed have received too much criticism or haven't been encouraged enough let people treat them badly because they feel they don't deserve better do not accept praise or appreciation because they feel they don't deserve it feel defeated by life, fundamentally unimportant, unwanted or unlovable bully because they think they are worthless or think they are worthless because they are bullied and, feel they don't belong or do not seek friends because they think no-one would want to be their friend. Ruby and the Rubbish Bin is a story for children with low self-esteem. Ruby hates herself so much that she often feels more like a piece of rubbish than a little girl. Sometimes Ruby feels so miserable that she wants to sleep and sleep and never wake up again. Then Ruby meets Dot and, over time, Dot helps Ruby to move from self-hate to self-respect. After a very important dream, and help from Dot, Ruby finds her voice and her anger, and stands up to the bullies. She makes new friends and knows what it's like to feel happy for the first time in her life.

A Nifflenoo Called Nevermind

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351693689
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
A story for children who bottle up their feelings. Nevermind always carries on whatever happens! Each time something horrible happens to him he just tucks his feelings away and carries on with life. Find out what happens to Nevermind and how he begins to understand that his feelings do matter, how he learns to express them and stand up for himself.

Ruby and the Rubbish Bin

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351701533
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
(A story for children with low self-esteem) Ruby hates herself so much that she often feels more like a piece of rubbish than a little girl. Children at school bully her. Sometimes Ruby feels so miserable that she wants to sleep and sleep and never wake up again. Then one day, Ruby meets Dot the lunchtime lady, When Ruby feels Dot's kindness and understanding, something warm happens in Ruby's tummy. Over time, Dot helps Ruby to move from self-hate to self-respect. In fact Dot's smile makes Ruby feel like a princess. After a very important dream, and help from Dot, Ruby decides enough is enough. She finds her voice and her anger, and stands up to the bullies. She makes new friends and knows what it's like to feel happy for the first time in her life.